Finovate 2008 | Wesabe

Presenter: Gabe Griego, VP of Marketing

Notes from the Presentation: Wesabe was the first to market with money management tools and community finance. Money is hard to talk about and with the product they have the ability to share insights with spending decisions. New homepage that brings to life some of the new things with Wesabe. They have been innovating with Twitter – you can Twitter information into Wesabe – gave an example of a taxi ride as an expense. They don’t believe that product managers should tell you how to manage your money. The Wesabe product allows you create your own tags – and your sub level tags. Exciting part they highlighted was taking the API to the people in a UX experience, not needing coding and you can compare to other Wesabeans. The product did not appear to be complete as noted by the presenter. Going to build a graph gallery through the user community and share them with every individual.

Interesting Industry Note: Founder and former CEO of Corillian Corporation (acquired by CheckFree) Ted Spooner is now the CEO of WeSabe.

Finovate 2008

This week the financial services software nerds gathered in New York City for the second annual Finovate conference - "the Super Bowl and World’s Fair rolled into one" as the WSJ described it.

The Finovate conference is presented by NetBanker that showcases “the latest and greatest technological innovations in finance and banking.” The “hot products, cool people” format returned with 24 more companies getting 7 minutes each to demo their latest innovations (no PowerPoint allowed!) followed by several hours of focused one-on-one networking time. The event wrapped up with cocktails and appetizers at the end of the day.